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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  Ebbel didn't only grow up to be a professional scientist with an MIT ... voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  a bad thing. I'm taking this week to just kind of sizzle down, so I ... only 18%. Sam's Mom has informed me that I have a then/than error in one of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  -winning composer John Harbison. I remember one time, a book was recommended to me on ... would yell out a number, and MIT people would say to which course it ... call out a number from 1 to 220 or whatever, and he tells you the name of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  . Now, I don’t want to make too strong of a claim, but let’s just say that ... , currently one minute early! currently listening to: a baby crying (nothing ... commotion of a conductor trying to figure out some passengers who had

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  feel like a slacker... so without further ado, here are some answers to ... to pursue some great experiences and grow as students/people may have a ... applied to MIT in a previous year." I think Ben just about covered it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  thank god that makes my life a lot easier   1:35 pm: me, to google ... ’s bedtime I am going to email my supervisor for a sanity check maybe I am ... to check out my math  he looks stumped   1:57 pm:  we find a

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their ... adventures and collegiate experiences, and the possibility to make lasting ... to MIT, I never really saw myself as a sorority girl, although I was

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut ... that you're going to see MIT. When we're on the road, we can't make that ... 'm coming to a city near you, see you soon!

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce"']a ... are almost always tied to the[annotation note="MIT has a reputation for ... friend when the snow started. As we exited the museum to see a thin layer

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... ’t suppress the desire to go back just 48 hours, so I could’ve slept just a bit ... three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  , startles, and really makes you think. On the train on the way back from a ... used indexes of chief executive compensation show close to a proportional ... genomics research, had the following teaser on the front page: A Later Split

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  looked to bring a piece of this competition home with us, no matter how ... gathered in a biology teacher’s classroom, attempting to excel in something ... went unanswered, reduced to just a mark on the scoresheet. I buzzed in

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... that planet are a little hard to acclimate to. It seems that this planet ... 't have time to breathe." Night only falls for 4-8 hours a day, depending on

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  dishes. I find my dishes. I make cookies and send an email to the dorm about free cookies. I talk to people. I eat a cookie.   punt - (1) v ... -sets expanded to fill the time I gave them: all the time I had. As a result, when

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  are in tough financial shape and make a good faith effort to inform us ... the word limit. You may choose to send in the essay at a length that ... not a required part of the application. You are welcome to request an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  referred to as "W1") into a "New" magical dorm (NW35 or the "New" Ashdown ... undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final construction plans, to establish a government system and to begin the dorm

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  being able to make food for myself. The latter is beyond terrifying, as I ... others having similar reunions. My mom tried to get a sense of what life ... Harvard Bridge to have dinner in Boston, and a trip to Star Market for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  ) * Carey (Joni Mitchell) * You'll Never Make a Saint of Me (Rolling Stones ... 't Make a Goose of Me" * Bob Dylan - "When the Ship Comes In" * John Dowland ... intended to distribute his TV station in Atlanta (then called WTCG) over

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  opportunity to imagine life in a world different than ours and envision what ... -fi is part of where I get my inspiration for wanting to be a part of the ... that the entire galaxy is about to enter into a state of chaos for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... ! Unfortunately, it is rare for a recipe to involve all three elements like this one ... a humbling experience, but to me it meant something beyond that. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022